K-12 education

All the pieces fell into place for the first day of Spokane Public Schools, which open Tuesday.

Mead teachers and other staff may go on strike next week if their union bargaining team can’t reach a new contract agreement with the Mead School Board by midnight Sunday.

As the school year nears for 1.1 million public school students in Washington, most of them will start the year with some sort of sweeping restriction on when, where and how they can use their cellphones on campus.

With their contract set to expire at the end of summer, representatives from Spokane Public Schools and union Spokane Education Association have reached a tentative agreement for a new three-year contract.

In her first two years of high school, Madge Elmore felt liberated.

Shadle Park High School’s first three graduating classes got together for their annual meetup – this year at Arbor Crest Winery – to share select wines, tasty hors d’oeuvres and priceless memories.

A cherry -red mass descended on the lawn outside the Mead School District office Wednesday as more than 250 educators and their supporters convened in solidarity with their union’s bargaining team.

At first, 8-year-old Delaney Moses was hesitant as she peered inside her new black canvas backpack. Unzipping it further, she shoved her whole head into the dark bag to scope out its contents.

HARRINGTON, Wash. – Harrington School District is one of 16 rural schools across Eastern Washington turning sunlight into savings, thanks to a new project bringing solar power to rural communities.

Rusty Taylor thinks of himself as a jack of all trades.

This coming school year, around 300 fewer kids will get meals to take home over the weekend following a revenue shortfall in Second Harvest’s Bite2Go program stationed at dozens of schools around the county.

The chairman of the Spokane County Republican Party on Tuesday lost his bid to join the Central Valley School Board.

On any given day, Joseph Perkins can be found tucked away in a carpeted walk-in-closet creating works of art out of plastic bricks.

Construction is well underway at Greenacres Middle School, Summit K-8 school, and Broadway, Progress and Liberty Lake elementaries for new secure entrance vestibules commonplace at modern schools. These projects come at a combined cost of around $2.8 million in taxes collected as part of the capital levy voters approved in February 2024.

The Department of Education intends to release a hold on billions in grant funding to schools after a near monthslong pause in revenue for school districts, the department told states Friday.

The Trump administration plans to release more than $5 billion in funding to public schools that it has withheld for nearly a month, a senior administration official said Friday, ending weeks of anxiety and uncertainty for school leaders who had said the freeze jeopardized programs and staffing for the upcoming academic year.

The West Valley School Board became the latest local voice to join the conversation around transgender athletes’ participation in school sports on Wednesday.

“I was so excited I almost cried, just because of the state of our staff. They were freaking out, like ‘Am I going to have a job?,’” said Debra Raub, executive director of Communities in Schools of Northeast Washington, a recipient of millions in grant funding for programs at six schools in Spokane County.